Check writer



June 24, 1930.

A. E. ISCHINGERl CHECK WRITER Original File 5X.

4 Sheets-Sheet l June 24, 1930. 5 A. E. lscHlNG-ER' 1,766,646

CHECK WRITERV Original Filed Deo. 4l 1918 4'ShGetS-Sheet. 3

R I s l fea 46 I 40 Jung 24, 1930. A. E. Iscr-UNSER CHECK WRITER 4 sheets-sheet 4 Original Filed Dec. 1 1918 Patented `lune 24, 1930 MotM-ll CHECK Reled for abandoned application Serial No. 265,219,

This application is a substitute or iny abandoned application Serial llo.y 55,215), liled December 4f, 1918.

The object of this invention is to provide a new and improved machine ,tor printingl or Writing checlrs inore especially for Writing on the check the number, date, naine of the payee and the amount in hgures as Well as Words for which the check is erawn.

This and other objects of the invention will be illustrated in the drawings, described in the specification and pointed out in the claims at the end thereof.

ln the accoinpanying` dran/inns:

Figure 1 is a top plan viva of niy irnproved check Writer.

Figure 2 illustrates a check on which the number, name, amount and date ot the cheek have been printed as it ivill be done with iny improved device.

Figure 3 is a section on the line x-SX ot igure 1.

Figure i is a section on the line 4i -ilx of 1 igure 3.

Figure 5 is a section on the line .5X-5X of Figure 1.

Figures 6, 7, 8 and 9, are plank and side elevations olf Washers used in connection With the printing.;I Wheel and linlr oil' my invention.

Figure 10 is a oranlr for operating` the linlr nrinting wheel.

ll gure 1l is a detail vienv of the shaft carrying` the printing' Wheel, ete.

llieure 12 shows the linlr lor limiting the travel of the spacing or feeding arm.

Figure 13 is detail view of a portion of the picket or conib by which the operation or" the printing lever is gaged.

Figure le is a section on the line 1ste-lllX of lligure 3.

Figure 15 is a section on the line 15M-15:" oi- Figure 3.

ln the accompanying i erence numerals indicate li'e parts.

For convenience, l have illustrated the invention applied to a machine such as is shown in the to Sampson No. 5o 1,141,270, although it is obvious that the WRTER led December 4, 1918. This application iled March Serial No. 95,814.

invention Will be applicable to other forms or' check Writers as Well.

In the drawings, reference numeral 1 indicates the base or the checl; Writer covered by a plate 2, above which is carried a casing 3 in which is contained the printing Wheels and linlr and the mechanism for operating thorn. Mounted in the base and casing` is a sleeve l having a shaft 5 therein. @n the sleeve is fastened a segmental beveled gear G, which ine es with the bevel gear 7, which is cast integral with the pinion 8, carried on the stud 9. nlhe pinion 8 meshes with the pinion 10, carried on the stud 11, and this, in turn, meshes With the pinion 12, east integral with the printing Wheel 13, which printing' Wheel is mounted to rotate loosely on the sha-fl" 141-. This printing wheel carries Words or combinations of Words, inade up of letters, which Words are used for Writing' the amount of the check as appears roni the line in Figure 2, reading;` Fourteen thousand trvohundred fifty dollars, ten cents.

The shaft 14 is out with llat seat that is indicated at 15. rlfhe shattis grooved with annular grooves at 18 and 19. luto the groove 18 extends a small projection ol' the shown at lO-A to prevent its moving endwise. The sides oin the shaft in the groove 19 are cut llat so that the ends of the lever or handle 20 can be slipped over and then pressed together, which engages therewith for the purpose of' turning it.

rlhe Washers 16 and 17 are provided with the eccentric circular openings 21 and 22, one side of which openings is left liat corresponding to the shape of the shaft lll at its seat 15 so that the Washers will 'positively engage therewith and rotate therewith. The thick Washer 15 supports the printing Wheel 23 on the shalt and the Wheel 23 rotates freely on said Washer. The thin Washer 17 supports the end of tie linlr 24; shown in Figures 3, 5, 12 and 14 and if rotated, moves the link back and forth. The openings 2l and 22 in the Washers 16 and 17 are eccentric to the centers of the Washers, and are, therefore, eccentrically placed on the shaft lll and hold the printing Wheel 23 and the end of the link 2e eccentrically thereon.

The washer 16 turns freely inside of the circular opening in the printing wheel 23 and does not turn it but merely raises and lowers it. The washer 17 turns freely inside the circular openingl of the link 2-'1- and moves its back and forth. The turning of the shaft 14 is secured by the handle 20, which will lock itself into engagement in the recesses 25 and 2G of the casing and will be held thereby in either up or down position. The printing wheel 13 will not be elieeted by the rotation of the shaft 14, but the type wheel 23 will be raised or lowered by the rotation of the shaft 14 and the link 24 will be moved endwise forward and back thereby.

lVhen the handle 2() is in the position shown in Figures 4 and 5 indicated at A the wheel 13 will print on the check and the wheel 23 will not print on the check.

zo When the handle 2i) is rotated 1350 .from

the position shown in Figure 5 to the position indicated at B. the wheel 13 will not print on the check and the wheel 23 will print on the check, and with the new i si- 25 tion of the handle 24?, the link 2-1 will he shifted so as to limit the operation of the. variable feed mechanism and make it feed the check a uniform amount with each printing operation. The mechanism by which this result is secured will now be descrbetl.

Below the printing wheel is carried a grooved platen 30, the grooves of which correspond with the grooves of the type in both printing wheels. lith each printing operation the platen raised to press or strike the check against the type exposed in line therewith on the printing wheel. This platen is carried on the end of an arm 31 ivoted at 32. The forward end of the arm 1s provided with the adjusting device 33 by by the spring 34 which is fastened at its upper end to the casing 3 at 35 and at its lower end to a projection on the platen arm 31. On the upper end ofthe sleeve 4 is carried the narrow casing 40 in which is mounted a lever 38 pivoted at 39, having an anti-friction roller mounted thereon at each end. The rear end of the lever 3S engages the top of the pin 5 for the purpose of pressing it down.

On the forward end of the casing 40 are the lugs 41 between which the handle 42 is mounted to oscillate at The rear end of this handle engages with an anti-friction roller on the front end of the lever 3S, which in turn engages with and operates the pin 5. The lever 42, casing 40, lever 38 and sleeve 4 all swing together so that the handle 42 may be brought opposite to any of the openings in the picket 44, each of which .openings represents a letter of the alphabet as is indicated by the scale 45 in Figure 1. This scale is carried on top of the casing 3 and is stationary. A pointer 46 is carried on the casing 4() and rotates therewith, pointing to the various letters in succession. As the handle 42 is turned, the casing 40, gears G, 7, 8 and l() all turn therewith and this turns the type wheel 13 as well. The type wheel 23 is loosely fastened to and turns with the type wheel 13. This is secured by the slot 47 in the type wheel 23 and pin 4S in the type wheel 13, the loose connection heilig necessary because of the eccentricity of the wheel 23. As the wheels move together, the same lever and gearing can be used to turn both of them.

As pointed out above, when the wheel is in its raised position, the platen will make contact with the wheel 13 only, and when the wheel 23 is in its low position, the platen will make contact with the wheel 23 only. The check is placed between the platen and the wheels so that the printing is secured thereon by either wheel as may be desired. I have shown one type wheel 23 eccentrically mounted on the shaft 14 but it is obvious that two or more type wheels may be mounted thereon in the same manner and each of them may be brought one at a time into operation on the shifting of the lever 20 to the correct position by setting the washers 16 therefor at different angles on the shaft 14 in assembling the machine.

The check is fed to the left in Figures 1 and 4 and toward the observer in Figure 3 and away from the observer in Figure The mechanism by which the feeding is secured will now be described.

Mounted in the base is the shaft 5() having a ratchet wheel 51 thereon, which is f ed by the pawl 52 carried on a crank 53 and operated by the lever 54, which lever roi-,ks on a fixed pivot at 59. Movement is communicated to the lever 54 from the pin 4 as follows:

Fastened to the bottom of the pin 4 is the plate G1 which has a sliding engagement with the pin 62. This pin at the top has a block G3 thereon which makes pivoted connect-ion with the lever 54 at (34. Below the plate 61 is a block (35 which slides on the pin 62 and compresses the spring GG thereon against the head at the bottom of the pin. 'hen the pin 4 pressed down, it pushes the block (35 down and thru the spring presses the pin 62 down as well until the lever 54 encounters resistance at the upper end, which may be encountered early or late in the movement of the pin 4, after which the lever 54 remains stationary while the pin 4 moves further to bring the platen into contact with the type to cause the printing on the check, which printing occurs at the end of the movement of the pin 4. In permitting this movement, the spring 66 is KLIK usually compressed to a greater or less eX- tent. The movement of the lever 5e is determined by the elevations on the mutilated end of the cylinder with which it rocks into contact from its normal position. rlhe mutilations permit a travel of the lever and feed of the check proportional to the length of the word or words that are printed by line used on the printing wheel 13 with that particular operation. The words on the type wheel 18 are of different lengths and different length feeds are necessary therefor. The letters and characters on the type wheel 23 are of uniform length and uniform feed is necessary when that wheel is in operation.

rIhe feed of variable length is changed to a short uniform feed as follows:

TWhen the type wheel is thrown into position for printing, the link 2a is thrown to the left in Figure 3 and the ene of it intercepts between the end of the lever 5f and the mutilated end of the cylinder and permits the lever to move only an uniform distance equal to the distance between centers of letters. lnthis way an uniform feed of the ratchet wheel 5l and of the feeding wheel 56 is secured. The first space at the left of the first picket in lli irc i3 is partially filled in as shown at to limit the downward movement of the lever enough to secure the feed of the check only and not enough to secure printing. rlhis filled space in the picket is beneath the blank space of the dial and is for the purpose of wicing blank between naines or words as desired without printing. rEhe link 2% is slotte-Cl at 57, thru which slot extends the shaft ll. The shaft guides the movement of the link where it passes between the casing and the end of the sleeve on the pinion lO and is thereby held steady.

ln Figures 3 and le l have shown inking rollers 67 and 68 by which ink is supplied to the printing wheels of the machine.

l claim:

l. ln a printing machine, the combination of a shaft, two printing wheels mounted thereon, and connections between one of sait wheels and the shaft whereby on the turning of the shaft the wheel is shifted radially with reference to the other wheel for the purpose of selecting the one or the other of said wheels for a printing operation.

2. ln a printing machine, the combination of a shaft, two printing wheels mounted thereon, connections between one of said wheels and the shaft whereby on the turning of the shaft the wheel is shifted radially with reference to the other wheel for the purpose of selecting the one or the other of said wheels for a printing operation, a platen for making contact with said wheels, and means for moving said platen and wheels relatively to each other to secure a printing operation of the selected wheel.

3. In a printing machine, the combination of two parallel printing wheels mounted on a single shaft, a platen placed parallel to said shaft and movable relative to said wheels to inalnJ printing contact therewith, and means carried by said shaft and operated on the rotation thereof for moving one of said wheels radially relatively to the other wheel so as to throw part of the periphery thereof exposed to the platen out of line with the periphery of the other wheel, whereby the platen makes contact with but one or the other of said wheels.

Il. ln a printing machine, the combination of parallel printing wheels having characters thereon mounted on a single shaft, a platen placed parallel to said shaft and movable relatively to said wheels to make printing contact therewith, said shaft having an eccentric thereon on which one of said wheels is mounted, said shaft being turned independently of the wheels to change the position of the eccentric relative to the characters on said wheel, so as to throw part of the periphery thereof exposed to the platen out f line with the periphery of the other wheel whereby the platen makes Contact with one or the other of said wheels.

5. ln a printing machine, the combination of two parallel printing wheels mounted on a single shaft, means for bodily shifting one of said printing wheels and causing either of said wheels to print independently of the other on paper, means for feeding the paper after printing thereon, said feeding mechanism having normally a variable throw, and means to limit its operation to cause a short, uniform feed.

6. ln a printing machine, the combination of two parallel printing wheels mounted on a single shaft, said shaft having a key way thereon, a washer eccentrically keyed on said shaft, one ofsaid printing wheels mounted to rotate on said eccentric, and a handle on said shaft for shifting the position of said shaft and the eccentric in said wheel.

7. ln a printing machine, the combination of two parallel printing wheels mounted en a single shaft, said shaft having a key way thereon, a washer eccentrically keyed on on said shaft, one of said printing wheels mounted to rotate on said eccentric, and means for rotating and fastening said shaft in either of a plurality of positions to cause a printing operation by one or the other of said wheels.

S. ln a printing machine, the combination of a shaft and two parallel printing wheels, means mounting said printing wheels directly on the shaft, eccentrically to each other, and a loose connection between said wheels which causes them to rotate together each around its own center.

9. In a printing machine, the combination of a shaft and two parallel printing wheels, means mounting said printing wheels directly on the shaft, eccentrically to each other, a loose connection between said Wheels which causes them to rotate together each around its own center, and means whereby the eccentricity of the one wheel can be shifted at will.

10. In a printing machine, the combination of a shaft and parallel printing wheels mounted thereon, a feeding mechanism operating in connection with said printing Wheels for feeding the paper printed thereb said mechanism normally having a variaisile movement when cooperating with one rinting wheel, and a link movable by said shaft to block the movement of said feeding mechanism and reduce it to an uniform amount for cooperation with the other printing wheel.

11. In a printing machine, the combination of a shaft, and eccentric on said shaft, two type Wheels mounted side by side on the shaft and eccentric whereby the turning of said shaft and the eccentric without tui-ning the wheels will cause one Wheel to be shifted laterally with relation to the other wheel.

12. A printing apparatus comprising a plurality of rotary type carriers each provided With a plurality of type forms, a platen, platen operating mechanism, a single adJustable paper feeding mechanism which cooperates individually with each type carrier, means for placing one of the type carriers in printing position, means for rotating the selected type carrier to bring the type forms thereof selectively to the printing point, and operating means for effecting an impression of the selected type form and actuating said feeding mechanism.

13. A printing apparatus comprising a plurality of rotary type carriers each provided With a plurality of type forms, a platen, platen operating mechanism, a single adjustable paper feeding mechanism which cooperates individually with each type carrier, means for placing one of the type carriers in printing position and adjusting said feeding mechanism for proper cooperation with the selected type carrier, means for rotating the selected type carrier to bring the type forms thereof selectively to the printing point, and a single mechanism operating means cooperating with said platen operating mechanism, and feeding mechanism for effecting an impression of the selected type form and feeding the paper.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

ALFRED E. ISCHINGER. 

